‘If you’re going to bring in an accountant making $45,000 a year to replace an accountant who is an American making $60,000 a year …’
America’s H-1B visa program comes out of a desire to better America: to allow foreigners with highly specialized skill sets and unique knowledge to come and work, then return home.
It’s deteriorated over the years, however, and now is used thousands of times a year by corporations who want to fire an American worker, and replace him or her with a lower-paid foreigner.
And Vice President JD Vance says enough is enough.
“My view is the H-1B program is completely broken,” he has said.
Vice President Vance on the Trump Administration's H1B visa reforms:
"The H-1B should not exist to replace American workers with low-wage foreigners. It should exist to enrich the American economy." pic.twitter.com/7bunZ97u5Z
— Vice President JD Vance (@VP) September 27, 2026
Vice President JD Vance on H1-B visas:
"If you’re going to bring in an accountant making $45,000 a year to replace an accountant who is an American making $60,000 a year, that’s not you using the program to bring in a genius. That’s you destroying American jobs and defrauding… pic.twitter.com/2yhrBzrnT8
— Vice President JD Vance (@VP) October 1, 2026